SPECIAL COMMITTEE SEEKS DIALOGUE WITH ADMINISTERING POWERS ON NEED TO SAFEGUARD INTERESTS OF PEOPLE IN COLONIAL TERRITORIES

SPECIAL COMMITTEE SEEKS DIALOGUE WITH ADMINISTERING POWERS ON NEED TO SAFEGUARD INTERESTS OF PEOPLE IN COLONIAL TERRITORIES

22 July 1999

Press ReleaseGA/COL/3019/

SPECIAL COMMITTEE SEEKS DIALOGUE WITH ADMINISTERING POWERS ON NEED TO SAFEGUARD INTERESTS OF PEOPLE IN COLONIAL TERRITORIES

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CORRECTION

On page 10 of Press Release GA/COL/3019 of 21 July, the sixth paragraph should read as follows:

Another letter in the aide-mémoire was an e-mail from the United States dated 20 July requesting amendments to references concerning the 1993 elections in operative paragraph two. Also requested were alterations to operative paragraphs: four, referring to the Territory's indebtedness to service its Y2K problem; five, referring to the 1998 elections; six, referring to fiscal problems; and seven, assistance to alleviate the fiscal crisis. A third letter in the aide-mémoire was from Carlyle Corbin of the United States Virgin Islands stating that references to the fiscal situation of the United States Virgin Islands were a matter for the Federal Government to consider, not the Special Committee.

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